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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS B. LAYOOOK, OF WASHINGTON, INDIANA.

SPRING BED-BOTTOM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 254,663, dated March 7, 1882.

Application filed October 28, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS B. LAYCOCK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Washington, in the county of Daviess and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Spring Bed-Bottoms, of which the followingis a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings, in which I Figure 1 is an inverted view of my improved bed-spring. Fig. 2 is a side view thereof; and Fig. 3 is a plan View, showing a series of these springs applied for use to different widths of slats. Fig. 4 is a modification. Fig. 5 is a detailed plan view, and Fig. 6 is a detailed side elevation, of my invention.

This invention has relation to an improvement in bed-springs, its object being to render it capable of adaptation to slats either of diflerent widths or placed diflerent'distances apart; and'it consists of two upright springs with the wire connecting together their upper ends formed with two loops formed each in part by a common wire connecting thetwo together, and in connecting the vertical springs together at bottom in pairs by means of horizontal spiral springs, substantially as hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.

In carrying out my invention I employ two upright (preferably coiled) springs, A A, with their connectingwire B, commencing at one side of the upper end of one spring and carried toward the other spring, thence returned or recurred toward the spring itstarted from, forming a loop. b, and again carried toward but uniting with the opposite side of the upper end-of the other spring, forming a second loop, I), as clearly seen in Figs. 1 and 3. This construction will permit of the drawing apart or bringing closer together of the springs by which they can be adjusted to slats of different width or placed different distances apart, as illustrated in Fig. 3, while serving at the same time to strengthen and prevent the careening of the springs.

In order to fit very wide slats, and where the distance between them is great, the vertical springs may be readily adjusted thereto by turning the spirals half round and fastening them to the slats in such manner as to clasp the same from the inner part of the slat outwardly.

The lower ends of the springs which terminate underneath the slats in hooks or eyes 0, as clearly seen in Figs. 1 and 2, are connected together by aspring, 0, the ends of which are provided with eyes or hooks d to connect them to the said ends of the spring A.

The obvious purpose of the spring 0 is to accommodate the varying distances the springs A are placed apart in connecting their lower ends together. In lieu of the spring 0, the lower ends of the springs A may be connected together, as at 0, Fig. 4. To avoid creaking, the springs may be titted with rubber tubing at such points thereof as may be essential.

I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent The bed-spring consisting of the upright springs A, with their upper ends connected together to enable the varying of the distance between them, and their lower ends provided with books or eyes, combined with the spring 

